Learn about early American domestic objects as seen through an anthropological lens, revealing facets of the human experience such as power and death.

In general, fashion and art are considered to be totally different. Art is dealing with important issues; fashion with mere appearances. Fashion is temporal; art universal.

Still not all fashion designers are guided by what’s hot and what’s not. On the contrary. Some of them work with big and universal themes like identity and individuality.

They pose questions like: who am I and who do I become by what I wear? What is my relationship to my surroundings and to other people, who might wear a different type of clothes?

Video artist Pipilotti Rist installed a major retroperspective of nine spatial video works at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. The spectacular immersive exhibition, titled Elixir, opened in the spring of 2009.
This series contains an interview with the artist, a video of the installation of the exhibition and eleven captivating excerpts from the lecture she gave about her work.

Dutch Design is supposed to be defiant: a book about colour could easily end up to be in black and white. But is it Defiance, that makes Dutch Design known all over the world? Or is it something else; idealism perhaps or a tendency to be frugal with materials.

Dutch designers may be social engaged or they might combine calvinism and creativity in an unexpected way. In this series, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen interviews a varied range of Dutch designers - upcoming and well known - about their work, their doubts and their ideals.